From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 14:29:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F4A16A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:29:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A3143D58 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:29:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E60A69A39; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:29:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:29:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Robert Dormer Message-Id: <20041004102918.23be38a9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3174add604100407232e148ebe@mail.gmail.com> References: <9d.4fabdbb7.2e91c892@aol.com> <1096843093.30508.48.camel@chaucer> <20041004001123.GA94274@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <3174add604100407232e148ebe@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 14:29:20 -0000 Robert Dormer wrote: > Having looked at the list, honesty - it's not nearly as much as it > looks like. Seriously. It's well within your ken to learn ALL of > that. Easily. Just do this - get a few machines. Throw FreeBSD on > them. Hell, throw Open or Net on one or two, RedHat or Gentoo or > Debian on another. > > Now plug them all into a hub. Get them to play nicely together. > Shouldn't take more than a few weeks of messing around. By the end of > that you should know just about everything on that list. Not have it > commited to memory, but hey - who does? > > I mean - why do you think they invented man pages? > > > Believe in yourself. If I can do it, anyone can. I want to second this wholeheartedly. However, take Robert's advice to heart. I think if you try to learn this stuff without a experimental network to try things out on, you'll either drive yourself mad, or simply fail. If you're serious about doing this, it's worth the $$$ to invest in 4 or 5 used computers to learn on. You really need more than one if you're going to understand how things interact across a network, and you want to have at least 1 computer that you _don't_ experiment with, so it's always reliable to use for email or searching for docs on the 'net. And I agree with Robert, that if you're serious about wanting to do this, you CAN accomplish it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com